About Newsnight

Key interviews and films

Newsnight has been getting the big interviews, asking the tough questions and holding those in power to account since it first aired in 1980.

Click here to watch key interviews and films, including THAT interview with Michael Howard...

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Peter Barron Editor, Newsnight

Our aim on Newsnight is simple: to give you the best daily analysis of news and current affairs on television.

These days the news agenda is more crucial than at any time in our recent history. Who will win the war on terror, how will the world respond to the threats of global warming and diminishing energy resources, will Blair win a third term?

Newsnight aims to help make sense of it all, and to hold to account those who make the decisions which will shape our future.

Our presenters - Jeremy Paxman, Kirsty Wark and Gavin Esler - get the big interviews and ask the tough questions.

On this site, you can watch Jeremy's famous interview with Michael Howard, Kirsty's revelatory interrogation of the then Immigration Minister Beverley Hughes, and Gavin's grilling of the BNP leader Nick Griffin.

Our team of correspondents are some of the most experienced and knowledgeable TV journalists in the business. Their aim is to break original stories, analyse developments in depth and put it all in perspective.

On Newsnight, we are committed to high quality film-making and high production values. Our films give a fuller, more textured picture than the news bulletins are able to do of Britain and the world in the 21st century.

With our nightly air-time of 50 minutes, we are able to run long-form films such as the Baghdad Blogger's portrait of Iraq, a fly-on-the-wall documentary film showing 48 hours in the life of the Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, and a series of films showing the project to build one of Britain's biggest works of public art; the B of the Bang. All of which you can watch from this site.

In addition every Friday at 11pm, Newsnight Review dissects the highs and lows of the artistic week with acute and lively analysis from the best cultural commentators, arts practitioners and opinion formers around.

Finally, we want to hear from you, our viewers. Just use the form below to send us an e-mail, and tell us about stories you think we might or should cover.

Or just get in touch with your views on the programme and the stories we've featured.

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